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Enough Rope (1963)

Enough Rope poster
Original title
Le Meurtrier
Directed by
Claude Autant-Lara
Genre
thriller film
Country
Germany, France, Italy
Runtime
1h 44m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man's life unravels when he becomes obsessed with a stranger's murder case that mirrors his own troubled marriage. The police and his wife grow suspicious as he makes one compromising decision after another.

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What happens

Enough Rope (French: Le meurtrier) is a 1963 French-Italian-West-German neo noir crime film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux and Gert Fröbe. The film is an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1954 novel The Blunderer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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